Third try’s the charm: Westerville man sentenced after 3 hearings
The first time the Westerville tax scammer, Roma Sims, showed up to a sentence hearing, the only result was arguing over how much he would owe in addition to jail time. The second time, Sims came in drunk (and was then arrested and sent to jail). Thursday’s third hearing, Sims finally received his sentence for a tax refund scheme. He is set to serve 100 months in prison in addition to paying $3.5 million in restitution, the Dispatch reported.
He was charged (along with others) of stealing more than 500 identities and then using those stolen identities to file 1,000 tax refunds. They totaled $3.5 million in refunds by the end of the scheme. How they were caught: they misspelled several city names on their fake identities which quite clearly caught the eyes of the IRS.
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